Sentences with word «belligerency»

The prestige media is generally blind to its own belligerency in the culture war; it champions as courageous the exercise of free speech that is vituperative and slanderous while simultaneously calling for civility, and condemning as uncivil even the measured responses of those who are slandered.

We can present the truth without belligerency; indeed, our speech should be «seasoned,» rather than armored.

He was deeply, deeply troubled by Stalin's — what Churchill saw was Stalin's belligerency particularly in Eastern Europe.

One thinks of his reflections on the Second World War, on pacifism and belligerency, on laws regarding obscenity, and on the nature of criminal punishment.

Together with this irreplaceable and tragic human loss go the wastage of farms and cities, economic devastation, careers ended or prevented from beginning, families sundered or diminished, political suspicion and belligerency, internecine strife, a divided people, regional isolation — the list of ravages is interminable.

The thing that bothers me most is that evangelicals liked his racist statements, his homophobic statements, his antifeminist statements, his belligerency.

Let's not question Iran's belligerency.